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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Philippians 3:10 - 3:10
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That I may know him - experimentally. The aim of the “righteousness” just mentioned. This verse resumes, and more fully explains, “the excellency of the knowledge of Christ” (Phi 3:8). To know HIM is more than merely to know a doctrine about Him. Believers are brought not only to redemption, but to the Redeemer Himself.
the power of his resurrection - assuring believers of their justification (Rom 4:25; 1Co 15:17), and raising them up spiritually with Him, by virtue of their identification with Him in this, as in all the acts of His redeeming work for us (Rom 6:4; Col 2:12; Col 3:1). The power of the Divine Spirit, which raised Him from literal death, is the same which raises believers from spiritual death now (Eph 1:19, Eph 1:20), and shall raise their bodies from literal death hereafter (Rom 8:11).
the fellowship of his sufferings - by identification with Him in His sufferings and death, by imputation; also, in actually bearing the cross whatever is laid on us, after His example, and so “filling up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ” (Col 1:24); and in the will to bear aught for His sake (Mat 10:38; Mat 16:24; 2Ti 2:11). As He bore all our sufferings (Isa 53:4), so we participate in His.
made conformable unto his death - “conformed to the likeness of His death,” namely, by continued sufferings for His sake, and mortifying of the carnal self (Rom 8:29; 1Co 15:31; 2Co 4:10-12; Gal 2:20).